Clipper Repair Service

Table Of Content

• How to Ship Your Equipment for Servicing A quick guide to the shipping process
• How we picked
• Care and maintenance
• Also great: Remington Virtually Indestructible Haircut and Beard Trimmer
• We’ll service your tools and send ‘em back your way.
• Upgrade pick: Oster Fast Feed Adjustable Pivot Motor Clipper
• Why BarberSupply.com

“It’s wireless and powerful, [and] it’s easy to use,” remarked Simon He. All things being equal among clippers, the combs matter the most, since they significantly affect the cutting experience and are expensive to upgrade or replace. During our at-home testing, we were able to try out clippers on a wide range of hair types, from extra-fine to thick, from straight to kinky, and from thin (or thinning) to dense. The authors tested a range of clippers on themselves and members of their households. In 2016, we recruited an expert barber, Eric Aleman of the King of Kings Barber Shop in Brooklyn, to test several contenders on a client and to offer his opinions and insight. In 2021, before narrowing down the options, we recruited Simon He at Techni Salon NY to similarly test contenders.

How to Ship Your Equipment for Servicing A quick guide to the shipping process

The Virtually Indestructible is the only one of our picks covered by a lifetime warranty (blades excluded). No, Frank Rowe & Son will disassemble and evaluate your clipper at no charge. If you decide you do not want to proceed with repairs, Frank Rowe & Son will return or dispose of the clipper as directed by the customer. There will be a $5 reassembly fee if you want the clipper reassembled and returned.

How we picked

You might decide you would rather purchase a new clipper instead of investing more into your current clipper. Frank Rowe & Son will contact you for authorization to continue repairs if your clipper repair is expected to exceed $50 ($75 for large animal clippers). Repairs under this amount will automatically be repaired and charged accordingly.

Care and maintenance

Our testers especially appreciated this clipper when they guided it along the back of their heads while looking in a mirror—that’s a tricky maneuver, especially when cutting along the hairline. This model is the best by far for smaller hands, and its mesh storage case takes up a minimal amount of room. The clipper’s eight included guide combs are made of rigid ABS plastic, so they don’t deform and leave track marks or trap and pull out hair when pressed against your head.

Repairs over $50 for small clippers or $75 for large animal clippers require authorization. Your order is typically completed within 7-14 business days after being received; however, it may take up to 4 weeks or longer depending on the availability of parts and the volume of service requests. We will ship your order back to you using actual costs for shipping. A barbershop classic, the Fast Feed is a pro-grade tool that’s good for those who sport a close buzz or fade and need frequent touch-up trims.

We’ll service your tools and send ‘em back your way.

Avoid 3-In-One, WD-40, or other non-food-safe lubricants, which may cause a skin reaction. Compared with many of today’s household devices, hair clippers are decidedly low-tech. All clippers should be inspected and serviced at least annually. Andis clippers recommend the blade drive assembly be replaced every days.

For the cost of an average haircut ($25 to $60 or so), three of our picks will easily handle the job for you. Since the pandemic hit in 2020, more and more people have been doing at-home hair maintenance—for themselves and others. If you plan to continue maintenance trims or shaves between professional cuts (or skip salons and barber shops entirely), it’s worth investing in a tool that you like to use and is easy to maintain. It’s a touch larger and heavier than the Elite Pro, and its combs are not reinforced like our pick’s. “I can feel the added weight, but it’s offset by the grippier body,” our tester said.

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The easy-to-handle Remington Virtually Indestructible Haircut and Beard Trimmer is especially ideal for people who want to cut their own hair. This model is lightweight, has rubberized grips along the sides, and is truly palm-sized. As a result, it’s far easier than any other model we tested to maneuver and hold in a loose grip, even with fingertips (as is often required when you’re clipping your own hair). This clipper comes with eight rigid-plastic, quality guide combs that seat securely (though they have fewer tips, slightly sharper in feel, than our main pick’s combs do).

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Separately, He and the staff at Techni Salon NY tried all the clippers we considered in 2020 and 2021 to compare them with their favorite tools and provide technical feedback to help us narrow down options for our at-home testers. With its terrific build quality, powerful motor, sturdy not overly stiff guide combs, and long cord, this model will satisfy the needs of most people who cut hair at home. The Oster Fast Feed Adjustable Pivot Motor Clipper is a staple of barbershops because of its power, ruggedness, and reliability—it can work all day without fatiguing the stylist or causing its motor to overheat. But compared with other pro-level models we tested, the Oster is considerably easier to use and generally less expensive. In our testing, the Wahl Color Pro Plus Haircutting Kit was a close contender to the Elite Pro. The biggest difference between them is that the Elite Pro’s guide combs are more durable.

This model also has a thick but pliable 8-foot cord and a powerful—but exceptionally quiet—motor, making it a solid choice for cutting kids’ hair. To regularly give haircuts at home, we’d reach first for the Wahl Elite Pro High Performance Hair Clipper Kit. The combs are made of a rigid yet smooth plastic that doesn’t bend when pushed against a scalp. And thanks to a metal retaining clip on the back of the combs, they stay seated and straight on the blade better than any other set we tried. They also add great value, considering that a competitor’s replacement combs (of equal quality) cost about half the price of this entire clipper kit.

Magnetic motors, which all our picks have, are the most common and make a signature whap noise when turned on. The other options are pivot motors, which run slower and have a pleasant hum. One of our experts suggested that advances in magnetic motors are making pivot motors effectively obsolete. On the advice of our experts and owner reviews, we primarily looked for corded models simply because they’ll reliably power through the job without needing a recharge. A haircut can take a while, and the risk of getting left with a drained battery and half a haircut isn’t worth the extra convenience. We did opt to try two cordless models, since they can be handy for outdoor use.

A taper lever is an advanced feature—a little doodad found on the side of a clipper that increases or decreases hair length more finely than you can get by switching combs or shifting the bottom blade forward or back. Ideally, when cutting hair you can adjust the lever with a finger, but it shouldn’t be loose enough that it slips due to a bump or vibration (otherwise you could end up with different hair lengths). We found that some taper levers were too easy to move accidentally while cutting hair. But among pros with the technical capability, a taper lever is an essential element for blending and fading between different lengths of hair, especially on the side of the head.

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By comparison, the Andis Headliner and Wahl Chrome Pro have lamp-wire-style cords. We asked participants to give their opinions of each of the clippers and accessories they tried out, without knowing the prices of any of the models. They also noted how comfortable the clippers were to hold due to size, weight, and vibration, as well as the power-cord length. At the end, we asked participants to pick the model they favored and would be most comfortable using themselves.

Though this model lacks a taper lever for finessing a fade or blend, most of our testers didn’t miss it for at-home uses (none of our haircutting novices attempted to do their own fades). We also have picks both for novices and for those more experienced in cutting hair at home. And we recommend a smaller, quieter model that’s ideal for cutting your own or kids’ hair.